Busacca Gallery

Mark Busacca, owner of Busacca Gallery is my featured article this week.The Gallery carries a High-end, one of a kind art Collectibles from around the world!The Busacca Gallery brings you contemporary & traditional museum qualityworks of art and antiques. They are one of the most comprehensive artresources available worldwide. Providing contemporary art and Antiques forsale to collectors, consultants, architects and interior designers,providing an opportunity to view and purchase art for their art projects.Whether it’s for the office, or art for the home, their online art galleryincludes all kinds of the most amazing edited and published art found onlinetoday. The Gallery is the first new online art consignment pre-edited, hand picked and...

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Mixed Bag Designing with Black

Kelly Wearstler is a decorator with her own studio, House of KWID (Kelly Wearstler Interior Design) and is particularly well-known for colorful mod-baroque commercial interiors, such as those of the Viceroy hotels in Palm Springs and Santa Monica, the Avalon in Beverly Hills, and the Tides in Miami Beach. She is currently a design judge on the second season of Bravo reality television show Top Design, and her books include Domicilium Decoratus (Harper Collins, 2006) and Modern Glamour: The Art of Unexpected Style (Collins Design, 2004).Kelly Wearstler designs featured at Neiman MarcusBelow are more mixed bag ideas for using black in your home decor color scheme.Armani inspired custom pillowsSometimes the most sophisticated nuances of any home...

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Grandma Moses of the American Southwest

Featured Photographic ArtistAggie Villanueva, The Grandma Moses of the American SouthwestAggie, raised her children in Kansas City, and discovered Thomas Hart Benton on a school field trip with her daughter’s class to visit the local Art Museum. She loved his style so much she bought a coffee table book of his work. She never thought about it before, but there was an influence of his style in the smoothness and 3-D visual of her own work, which they shared. Aggie was drawn to this style decades before she became a photographic artist.Like Frank Lloyed Wright, inspired architects and designers, Aggie found her own mentor in Thomas Hart Benton.Thomas Hart BentonBorn April 15, 1889, in Neosho, Missouri. Died January 19, 1975, in Kansas City, Missouri....

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Spectacular Homes of Georgia

Geometric EleganceA bold stroke of crimson ignites this otherwise quiet, contemporary dining room. The two tone chocolate and mocha tones set the stage with accents of platinum in the lighting fixture and shimmer of bronzes, silvers, and golds in the centerpiece. The mirror is actually a scarlet mosaic trimmed in gold and reflects the high gloss finish of the exotic wood table and chairs. The rug mirrors the geometric aesthetic.Featured Designer Melissa Galt is an acclaimed interior designer and design coach known for her no-nonsense philosophy working with clients to design their signature style. Her mission since 1994 when she established her firm, is to create unique and personal environments reflecting her clients life experiences and passions.Melissa...

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Evening in Venice

James Coleman James Coleman - a name synonymous with sweeping skies, tropical rain forests, rich deep woods and silent deserts. The images created by this talented man continue to delight all who view them. James Coleman was born in Hollywood, California in 1949. As a youth, his creative abilities seemed to dominate his world. Though he lacked the athletic skills of his young friends, he more than made up for it with imagination and ingenuity. As a young man his interest in film making and fine art would be the genesis for a long, successful career in animated films.View his collection and see how he how he magically added Mickey and Minnie into the, "Evening in Venice", pictured above. Titled, James Coleman, Black Tie Affair with Mickey and...

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La Concha Revival

Designed by architects Osvaldo Toro and Miguel Ferrer, the hotel was completed in 1958. Marchand and Rosselló created an atrium to open up the lobby to the pool deck.Rosselló designed handblown Murano glass lamps for the iconic restaurant, which was conceived by Mario Salvatori.In the presidential suite, Rosselló, who designed furniture for all of the guest rooms, used modern pieces in the same palette of white found throughout the hotel.The penthouse terrace.Windows of the guest rooms were enlarged, and the small balconies were eliminated. “We put that space back into the room,” says Rosselló. “Now it is all about the air, the light, the water, the view.” Donghia throw fabric.Recessed, colored lighting and Amanece, made with strands of silk...

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Vintage Modern

My Featured Designer today is Suzanne Meyer-PistoriousChoose custom designed fabrics for any area in your home or an original designer gown creating excitement wherever it is worn.While Suzanne will showcase some of her custom designs as apparel, she does not make or sell apparel, the fabrics are draped to give a suggestion of how they can be used to make your one of a kind designer gown.In recent articles, I have featured clothing designers such as Armani and Coco Chanel, whose clothing line inspired their home decor creations. I believe Suzanne is following in their footsteps, in the reverse, displaying her fabulous hand painted fabrics for, furniture, pillows and art, while introducing the idea for lovely designer gowns. As a designer,...

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